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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 22, 2007 9:46:41 GMT
Check ebay for this fellow. He aways produces good stuff
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 23, 2008 19:02:22 GMT
retro68specia on ebay - one of my favourite sellers has a few tasty titles out including
You are bidding on a rare PAL VHS videotape of the cult 1971 trash horror movie THE ZODIAC KILLER based on the exploits of the infamous San Francisco serial killer. The film stars Hal Reed and Bob Jones and was directed by Tom Hanson. This delirious trash film is one of the all-time great exploitation horror films.
Here's an excerpt from a review from the DVD Drive-In site:
"Opening with a disclaimer by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery, describing the movie as a public service, THE ZODIAC KILLER is one intense little mother of a movie! It toes the line between nasty exploitation and realistic true-crime drama. One example: the film opens with two murders. The first, wherein a cab driver is shot in the head, was an actual murder committed by the Zodiac Killer. This scene is followed by a young girl on a bike being tackled and stabbed to death by the same murderer. This murder did NOT happen. And so the movie is as schizophrenic as the Zodiac himself, and thankfully one side is as entertaining as the other. The true-life-inspired murders have more attention to detail and shocking realism, so they're easy to spot and still have the power to disturb, but the outrageous fake murders seem improvised on the spot and are more humorous than anything else. ZODIAC KILLER remains the only film officially based on the infamous Zodiac Killer, and the serial killer actually addressed the film in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle after it was released to drive-ins (with comment cards asking patrons to identify the real-life murderer)!! Since 1970, more books have been published pointing fingers at various suspects, and as recently as 2001, Robert Graysmith, author of the excellent book Zodiac, has gone public with who he claims was undoubtedly the Zodiac Killer (long deceased), and as of this writing, a mainstream version of the true crimes is being prepared for release in 2004. Whoever the Zodiac was, he gave the San Francisco area the shivers for almost a decade, striking with no warning, without reason, and with no preference to the race, sex, or age of his victims. If there was one good thing to come of his killing spree, it was that this little slice of cheese was processed to cash in on the terror. Long live exploitation!"
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